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It was found on the assembling of the forces that not one of the outlaws had returned. Whether they were bent on wreaking their vengeance still more fully on their foes, or had good reason for wishing to avoid a meeting with troops, was uncertain; but it was shrewdly suspected that the latter was the true reason.
The Prohibitionists, during their long and very adroit campaign, shrewdly recognized the importance of controlling the judiciary; in particular, they threw all their power against the election of candidates who were known to be Catholics, or Jews, or free-thinkers.
Later a decoy telegram was sent by a Marlanx agent, informing Tullis that she had gone to Schloss Marlanx, never to return, but so shrewdly worded that he would believe that it had been sent by coercion, and that she was actually a prisoner in the hands of her own husband. Tullis was expected to follow her to the Castle, bent on rescue.
So that although he saw by his uncle's manner that he was not especially anxious to see him back soon, and shrewdly guessed that this was in part on Cherry's account, he did not let the matter distress him.
"A lady who pays but five francs and a half shouldn't be too clever. C'est deplace. I don't like the type." "What type do you call Mrs. Church's?" "Mon Dieu," said Madame Beaurepas, "c'est une de ces mamans comme vous en avez, qui promenent leur fille." "She is trying to marry her daughter? I don't think she's of that sort." But Madame Beaurepas shrewdly held to her idea.
The Gräfin, true to her word, quietly disposed of the several suitors approved by her husband, and although the autocrat sputtered and raged the Gräfin, her youngest daughter shrewdly surmised, rather encouraged these exciting tempers arguing that these three girls bade fair to remain on his hands for ever, he ended always by agreeing that the young officers were unworthy of an alliance with the ancient and honorable House of Niebuhr.
M'Slime?" "Tried in the furnace of affliction, nine times heated, Darby." "It's a sad thing to be accused unjustly, Mr. M'Slime," said Darby looking him shrewdly in the face with one eye shut; "but then it's well that this this visitation has come upon a man that has thrue religion to support him, as you have, under it."
After he was hit, he stuck to his horse a little too long to suit me," said Stone shrewdly. Van Horn's retort was contemptuous and pointed. He laughed: "Afraid of him, eh?" Stone regarded him malevolently: "Look here!" he exclaimed harshly, "I'll make you a little proposition. When I get shaved we'll ride over to the Crazy Woman and you c'n look in the hole for yourself."
There is a class of post-office thieves who make a specialty of rifling the registered letters that pass through their hands in transit on journeys of greater or less length. Some of them have managed operations very shrewdly, in the evident belief that they had discovered an infallible method for doing the work and at the same time escaping detection.
We wandered about the grounds, spoke with the great people, stared at the odd ones, and said to ourselves, at least I said to myself, with Hamlet, "The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold." The most curious personages were some East Indians, a chocolate-colored lady, her husband, and children.
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